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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

The Partita on Toulon by Gerhard Krapf, and then some "controversy"

Sunday morning, at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Arlington
VA, organist Carol feather Martin played the Partita on Toulon by professor Gerhard
Krapf.

I couldn’t find it on YouTube, but there is a performance by
Krapf of a Reger Fugue, performed at the University of Iowa, supposedly the
only University tracker organ in the U.S.

The work comprised a Toccata, Siciliano, Cavatina, Fanfare,
and Finale, in the key of F Major. The music has polyphony like Bach but with
more modern dissonances. It sounds more like a full blooded organ symphony than
a “suite”.

There was also an anthem with piano, “Psalm 139” by Allen
Pote.

Both the children’s sermon and later the full sermon by Judith
Fukp-Eickstaedt focused on “Cultivating Gratitude: For Life, For the Wonder of
the Human Body”. There were slides that show the complexity of organ systems
(as if from Shaun Murphy’s savant visions on “The Good Doctor”), with some
statistics on neurons and synapses in the human brain that still dwarf any
computer (it is speculated that a quantum computer running in a cold
environment like on Titan, a moon of Saturn, might some day recreate human
intelligence artificially). She also said that people cannot always be held
responsible for their own physical issues, and seemed to point specifically at
fat-shaming, such as we have heard from Donald Trump and especially MiloYiannopoulos(she barely escaped naming names). This particular congregation
has outstanding young people (high school to college), that does international
missions, and that is quite well-informed in the culture wars (it found another
sponsor than World Vision for its 30 Hour fast).

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